Judge Dismisses Another Defamation Suit by Nunes

A Virginia judge has dismissed the second of two lawsuits Rep. Devin Nunes filed against a Republican political strategist who he claimed spread defamatory information about him leading up to his 2018 reelection campaign, the Fresno Bee reports.

Nunes claimed Liz Mair defamed his character by making crude comments on Twitter using fictional alter egos—a cow and Nunes’ own mother.

Said Mair: “It is ridiculous that we have had a sitting United States congressman suing a fake farmyard animal, let alone me, for being mean to him on Twitter.”